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From: "J.R. & Bonnie Ricks" <j-r-and-bonnie@dogwoodministries.org>
Date: Apr 27 05:46PM -0500
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/takeaminute/msg/6a67b820082a9bbb
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NO MATTER WHAT - Exodus 4:20 NIV
So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey and started back to
Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.
His arguments exhausted, Moses finally did what God had told him to do. He
packed up his family and headed for Egypt. In spite of his fear. in spite
of his feelings of inadequacy. in spite of his stubbornness. in spite of his
wife's objections. he stepped out on faith and did what God told him to do.
We all know the outcome... the Hebrew people were freed. And we also know
that Moses, along with the people, continued to resist what God told them to
do... each time meeting with disaster. But, in the alternative, each time
Moses and the Israelites did what God said, no matter what, they were
blessed.
What about your life? Has God given you something to do that you're
resisting? Maybe it's something as simple as regular church attendance. Do
you have trouble making it every Sunday? After all, that's the only day you
can sleep late, the only day you can catch up on your housework, or your
yard work, or your hobbies.
Maybe you're single. a status with which you are not at all happy. You're
tired of being alone, and if you don't go out on Saturday night, how are you
ever going to meet someone? And you're too tired to come to church after
staying out so late. You've been going out every weekend, hoping to meet
that special someone, but it just hasn't happened. But you know it will.
Now, think about this. What if God has someone in mind for you that He
sends to your church... on the very Sunday you decided to sleep late?
Granted, that's not the reason you should be going to church, but wouldn't
you have more faith in the kind of person you're meeting if you met them in
church rather than in a bar?
Or let's say your marriage isn't all roses and sunshine. In fact, it's
rotten. You are a born again believer, having met Jesus one-on-one a couple
of years ago, but your husband did not follow suit. So now you are
"unequally yoked" - the very thing that Paul warns against in 2 Corinthians
6:14-18:
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness
and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with
darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a
believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between
the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God
has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their
God, and they will be my people." "Therefore come out from them
and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing,
and I will receive you." "I will be a Father to you,
and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."
You didn't start out being unequally yoked, but now you are. You become
absolutely convinced that the only way your marriage can survive is if YOU
get your husband to convert - if YOU lead him to Jesus. Surely, that is
what God would want you to do, right? So, every time your husband does or
says something that goes against what Jesus would have him do, you make sure
that he knows it, and you insist upon showing it to him in the Bible. In
fact, every time you get two minutes to talk to him, all you talk about is
Jesus. But instead of convicting him and bringing him to his knees before
the Lord, your husband is growing farther and farther away from you, to the
point that now he actually becomes angry every time you mention Jesus' name.
But you won't be swayed. You HAVE TO save your husband! Then one day, you
run across 1 Peter 3:1-6 (NIV):
Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of
them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the
behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your
lives. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided
hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be
that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit,
which is of great worth in God's sight. For this is the way the holy women
of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful.
They were submissive to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham
and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and
do not give way to fear.
Oops! You've been doing the exact opposite of what God would have you do!
But this doesn't make any sense! Surely YOU should be the one verbally
witnessing to your husband every single day, right? Nope. Not according to
this passage. This passage says that they will be "won over without words".
So you have a decision to make. are you going to continue on with what your
"logic" says you should do, or are you going to follow God's way?
Remember... when we do what God tells us to do, no matter what, He blesses
us. And think about this... Jesus suffered and died for you. How much are
you willing to do for Him?
"If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross
and follow me." Matthew 16:24 NIV
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